Adjustable hinge.



J. F. HIXSON.

ADJUSTABLE HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED JANJI, 191s.

1;067,1 14. Patented July 8, 1913.

INVENTOR WITNESSES: 9 4 5 JOHN F. HIXSON, 0F YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

ADJUSTABLE HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1913.

Application filed January 11, 1913. Serial No. 741,447.

To all wire 1n it may concern I Be it known that I, JOHN F. HIxsoN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Ypsilanti, county oflVashtenaw, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Adjustable Hinges, and declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to hinges and has in view a hinge for hangingadoor upon an automobile body.

It has for its object a hinge adjustable laterally of the plane of thebody to effect an adjustment of the door laterally with respect to theplane of the body and in the plane of the body.

In the drawings: Figure 1, is a perspective of the hinges showing onehinge as sembled and one disassembled. Fig. 2, is a horizontal sectionof a portion of the body and hinge. Fig. 3, is an elevation of one ofthe hinge plates. Fig. l, is an elevation of the seating plate. Fig. 5,is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1.

A, is the door which is hung upon the body B by the two hinges shown inperspective in Fig. 1. Mortises 1 are cut in the door A and in the bodyB and in these fits a wedge shaped seating plate 2. The front face isthe beveled face and this is arranged to engage with the inclined face 3of the hinge plate 4. It will be readily understood that by moving thehinge plate 4. toward the left in Fig. 1 that the hinge plate isprojected farther out from the door along the plane of the door and thatby drawing the hinge plate to the right of Fig. 1 that the hinge platesets deeper in the mortise of the door and is adjusted toward the doorin the plane of the door. The same holds true of the hinge plate 5 thatis adjustable with respect to the body in exactly the same manner. Thehinge plates t and 5 are provided with knuckles 6 which are arranged toengage adjacent each other and which hold a knuckle pin 7 that forms thepivot of the hinge.

The center of the hinge plates is cut away as at 8 and the side wallsbeveled to form a track which may slide along the securing member 9which is a sort of square piece with sides correspondingly beveled. Whenthe fastening screws 10 are taken out, the hinge plates are still heldto the door and the body by the securing plates 9. By slightly looseningthe screw 11, the hinge plate may be slid laterally with respect to thedoor or the body (depending upon which member it is fastened to). Whenthe desired adjustment has been secured, the securing plate 9 may betightened upon the hinge plate by turning the screw 11. It will benoticed in Figs. 1 and 4. that the seating plate 2 is slotted instead ofhaving a customary circular perforation for the passage of the screw 10.This allows the driving of the screw in any point of lateral adj ustmentthat the hinge plate may occupy with respect to the seating plate.

It will be obvious that when the door closed with respect to the bodyand is flush therewith, that if it is desired to adjust the door so thatit fits better with respect to the door post, (the member against whichthe door jams) that is, so that it fits closer thereto, or if it isdecided to adjust the door so that it is removed slightly therefrom toprevent binding, all that will be necessary will be to move the hingelaterally with re spect to both the door and the body-in the case offitting the door closer to the door post, the hinge will be slidlaterally inward (it being assumed that the knuckles and the pin are onthe outside). This will cause the door and the post to be further spacedapart on account of the wedging faces of the hinge plate and the seatingplate; in the. case of the door being too close to the front door post,the hinge will be moved outward with respect to both the door and thepost, thus relieving any bin ding. When the fault wished to be correctedis a failure of the door to lie flush with the body, then one of thehinge plates will have to be moved laterally to correct this fault andif this correction throws the door too far away from the door post ortoo close, then this fault may be corrected by adjusting both of thehinge plates with respect to the body and the door in the manner alreadydescribed. These adjustments are very easily secured, as the securingplate allows the hinge to be readily moved and temporarily secured inits new position until the correct adjustment is attained.

My invention may be used to take up the sag in. a door or to force theupper corner down when it is raised up too high. This 1 wedging forcethe bottom of the door out, and take up the sag. WVhen the door israised up too high at the upper corner, this fault may be corrected bypushing in on the upper hinge and resetting the screws. Or, if either ofthese actions cause the door to bind with the front door post, the faultin the case of the sag in the door might be corrected by resetting theupper hinge by adjusting it outward andin case of the door being raisedup too high the fault might be corrected by adjusting the lower hingeoutward.

From the above description it will be seen that there is almostauniversal adjustment that may be achieved by resetting the hinge platesin or out, one orboth plates, or one or both hinges.

I do not wish to bennderstood as limiting my invention to automobilehinges alone i post, one of which is provided with beveled for itsusefulness extends to all hinges that are used to support a swingingmember with respect to another body.

that I claim is I 1. The combination with a seating-surface which isbeveled, of a hinge comprising a pair of hinge-plates, one of the plateshav ing one of its two larger faces inclined and adapted to lie againstthe beveled seating surface, knuckles attached to each hinge plate and ahinge-pin passing through the i cation in the presence of two witnesses.inclined-face hinge plate along the beveled i seating surface tends toproject the hinge or withdraw the hinge in a direction at right anglesto the direction of adjustment,

knuckles, whereby the adjustment of the substantially as described.

track so that the hinge plate may slide along the block when the same isloosened, the said block being adapted to be tightened down upon thehinge plate so that the beveled surfaces engage tos'ecure thathinge-plate temporarily in a given position of lateral adjustment,substantially as described,

3. A hinge, having in combination, a pair of hinge-plates one. having aninclined face, knuckles carried by the hinge-plate, a hingepin passingthrough said knuckles, a seating-plate having a beveled face engagingwith the inclined face of the hinge plate and a securing member fortemporarily holding the hinge plate while it is being adjustedlaterally, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a door, and door hin e-seatin surfaces of aoluralitv of h h r 7 v 'J hinges, each hinge provided with a hingeplate,one of the two main faces of which inclined and adapted to seat upon thebeveled hinge-seating surface, whereby the i individual hinges may beprojected out and I withdrawn in with respect to the door and post toraise and lower the free end of the door, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specifi- JOHN F. HIXSON.

\Vitnesses STUART C. BARNES, AMELIA C. KoLnN.

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